Majiziya Bhanu


Majiziya Bhanu is an Indian body builder and power lifter from Kerala.
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Biography

Majiziya is from Kozhikode, Kerala. She is the daughter of Abdul Majeed and Razia Majeed. She began her training in powerlifting after taking a boxing class while in college to study dentistry. She decided to compete after her then-fiancé showed her pictures of Muslim women competing while wearing a hijab, because she would not participate in competitions without wearing one. Soon after she began training, she competed in the Kozhikode District Powerlifting Championship in July 2016.
She has since completed a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the Mahe Institute of Dental Sciences and is a dental surgeon.
In 2021, she was a contestant on Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 3).

Bodybuilding and powerlifting career

By 2018, Majiziya had been named the strongest woman of Kerala by the Kerala State Powerlifting Association three times. Her first bodybuilding competition was in the women's division of the Mr Kerala Championship on February 25, 2018, which she won. She was the first competitor to wear a hijab at the event. She also represented India at the World Armwrestling Championship in Turkey in 2018.

Achievements in international level

Achievements